Double down on compassion: Choose your own awakening adventure
This week I posted this soul-filled gem on my social media feeds. I love this post for many reasons such as: It speaks for the Universe...
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Inward & Onward
My hope is through a deeper examination of the inward path, more peace will permeate through our lives and self-acceptance will be allowed to flourish.
Life does not need to change, only our perspective does.
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Let the exploration begin...
- Mar 19
Three Characteristics of A Soul Connection
To better understand where to put your focus and energy when it comes to relationships, it's helpful to define the soul connections in...
- Mar 5
How To Believe In Yourself When Doubts Creep In
I wish someone would have explained to me that sometimes following your dreams and passion is challenging. I have this story in my head...
- Feb 26
Nashville Lessons (Where would you go in the absence of fear?)
I traveled to Nashville with a group of friends last month. Doing a trip like this without John was a big growth opportunity for me. The...
- Feb 19
Small Actions of Empowerment: Learning to Take up Space
For me, awakening can be a deep and powerful, world-shifting experience, or in more practical terms, questioning thoughts and habits that...
- Feb 12
Ways to be with a Hurting heart
As a whole, our culture doesn't talk much about grief. And this is in regards to grief that is acceptable such as the loss of a loved...
- Feb 5
Riding the Waves of Resistance Towards Healing
Have you ever committed to something and it looks awesome in the moment, but then when the time arrives to actually do it, your heart...
- Jan 29
Replenishment of the Heart: Letting Go of Perfection
In recent months, my relationship to yoga has transformed. I used to have a goal of pushing myself towards change and healing. Now, I...
- Jan 22
Naming The Beauty that Surrounds Us
When my life seems like it's not working, I try to look at what is working. I imagine these gems wouldn't be mine if I had been born a...
- Jan 15
Healthy Relationships: How to know if You Have them
Lately, in my head, where honestly I spend about 90% of my focused attention, I've been trying to reconcile some confounding...
- Jan 8
5 Ways to Love yourself More in 2023
This time of year is one where we feel pressure to improve, set goals, and resolve to change ourselves. I want more for us. Here are five...
- Dec 30, 2022
The Highs and Lows of Being Human In 2022
This year I made a promise to myself I would do all I can to create consistent content and social media posts to promote my website....
- Dec 18, 2022
Love's Reminders
As we wound down our trip to Kenya this past summer and thunked our way over the pothole-ridden highway, we continued to observe...
- Dec 11, 2022
A Hug in a Mug
Besides pouring loads of self-compassion into my being, one of the best ways I have found to ground myself is by having a cup of hot tea....
- Dec 4, 2022
The Beauty of the Inward Path
There are many reasons we choose to go within. For some of us it is a matter of survival, for others an opportunity to grow...
- Nov 20, 2022
Little By Slowly
Ever notice when you really love someone or something it's not a conscious decision? It just unfolds in the landscape of your heart as if...
- Nov 13, 2022
The Truth We Hold Within
Whether it is cultural, familial, or some combination of both, it becomes second nature for many of us to not trust ourselves. Until we...
- Nov 6, 2022
Mistakes, Divinity, and Letting Life Happen
A few weeks back I was typing away on a blog post. My creative process is messy which makes it fun, but a post in its early stages can be...
- Oct 30, 2022
The In-Between
J.R., my oldest and a senior this year, turned 18. In all my years as a mom I have never been so sad on a birthday. I woke up weepy and...
- Oct 26, 2022
The Healing Will Follow (UPDATED LINK!)
On this path towards wholeness, which really is about revealing to ourselves that we are already whole, forward progress sometimes halts....
- Oct 23, 2022
I’m All In (This Is for You)
Somehow a long time ago I believed I was broken and unlovable. Therefore I attacked my healing journey with this conviction of 'fixing'...
- Oct 16, 2022
Good Times Squared
Like most parents, I'm pretty sure the veracity and volume of my cheering helps spur the success of my kiddos. My throat is always sore...
- Oct 9, 2022
What the Shell?
Oakley and I were walking on the beach. He is my trusty, hyperactive sidekick. He is patient(ish) as I comb the beach for shells and...
- Oct 2, 2022
Body & Mind: A Hurricane Story
As Ian made landfall leaving destruction in its wake, we were uncertain of the impact on our little northeast island cove. When life is...
- Sep 25, 2022
The Tools of Awakening (Soul-Deep & Wise)
I am always thinking of ways I can support you as you connect to your inner experience. Here is a list of the simple tools I have used...
- Sep 18, 2022
Below the Surface
HERE ARE 11 OTHER BELOW-THE-SURFACE TRUTHS: 1. I am a stay-at-home mom that does not like to cook or clean. I'm in no danger of becoming...
- Aug 21, 2022
Icing on the Cake
I have no idea where this blog and my website will take me and I am doing my best to make peace with this fact. It doesn't help that as I...
- Aug 14, 2022
The Teacher Becomes the Student
Being the center of attention feels like crunchy, jagged gravel has been poured into my stomach in a perpetual churning motion. If all...
- Aug 7, 2022
When Things Go Sideways
While in Kenya visiting the Masai Mara, we had the opportunity to take a hot air balloon safari. I knew the views would be spectacular...
- Jul 31, 2022
The Path Before Us
While staying at Sand River Masai Mara in a luxury tent encampment nestled deep in the heart of the National Reserve, we were granted...
- Jul 24, 2022
Never Give Up
We were stuck at the gate of the Maasai Mara National Reserve. Our safari vehicle had fallen victim to the choppy roads congealed with...
- Jul 17, 2022
A Truer Form of Beauty
In the span of my lifetime, the moments I have felt most beautiful rely very little on what I look like on the outside. For example, the...
- Jul 10, 2022
True and Essential (An Africa Story)
When we are born, we are more true and essential than at any other point in our lives. As we mature, life often asks us to set aside this...
- Jul 3, 2022
A Surrendered, Hopeful Heart
The week leading up to our trip to Kenya almost broke me. I was so focused on getting my boys, my dogs, and my blog ready, I didn't...
- Jun 19, 2022
The Only Goal That Matters
After my website launched late last year, I started piling on the pressure. Pressure to create meaningful content, grow my audience, and...
- May 15, 2022
be Golden
In the late fall of 2018, my husband, John, and I were accepted in to Martha Beck's African STAR. We were poised to go to South Africa...
- May 8, 2022
Forgettings & Rememberings
A long time ago when I was very young, I was certain I misunderstood the concept of happiness. This idea of being happy always seemed a...
- May 1, 2022
Be Still and Fold (I Hate Laundry)
I have always loathed doing laundry. Through the years of my spiritual study all evidence seems to point towards not only finding peace...
- Apr 24, 2022
The Tipping Point
There are days when walking the stretch of beach across from my house as the wind whips away at my resolve, I wonder if my puppy, Oakley,...
- Apr 17, 2022
Living on Purpose
I read somewhere, and unfortunately it was a credible source (at least to me), that if you are living your purpose monetary reward will...
- Apr 10, 2022
Accidental Awakening
My awakening experience has been both mystical and practical. The practical side surfaced when my boys were little. Initially, I wasn't...
- Apr 3, 2022
25 Signs of an Awakening Heart
How do you know exactly if you are on an awakening path? There's a good chance if you are here reading these words, you absolutely are....
- Mar 27, 2022
Life Has Other Plans
I've held a dream in my heart that someday I might train one of my dogs to be a therapy dog. To get you up to speed, I've had four...
- Mar 20, 2022
Decorate Your Elephant
"There's the door." Thus began one of the most humiliating break-up stories of my college career. This directive, with arm extended and...
- Mar 13, 2022
I Don't (Completely) Love the Way I Look
A few years ago I was at a spa getting a pedicure with a friend. They offered other services and she inquired about getting her eyebrows...
- Mar 6, 2022
The Gift of a Terrible Mood
My week did not start out well. Everything seemed off. My mind, my body, my mind's thoughts about my body. It's in these moments, if I am...
- Feb 27, 2022
My Favorite Color Is Truth
Sometimes I don't know what to make of this world. The upheaval, the imbalance of power, the tentative constructs we build to maintain a...
- Feb 20, 2022
Do This For You.
I was born spiritually awake and highly anxious. I wish the former would balance out the latter, but it does not. My anxiety is a part of...
- Feb 13, 2022
A Wise & Ordinary Self
I had a difficult week. Having welcomed our puppy, Oakley, over two weeks ago has been equal parts joyful and draining. My...
- Feb 6, 2022
The Two Sides of Fear
Before I delve into this week's blog topic, I want to extend my gratitude to each one of you who has taken the time to subscribe to my...
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